ABSTRACT
Norwegian salmon aquaculture grew out of the initial entrepreneurial discovery of breeding salmon in net pens in the sea. Since then, a combination of many years’ experience, determined business development and intensive R&D efforts has moved the discovery into a blooming industry. This chapter investigates the dynamics of the entrepreneurial discovery processes succeeding the discovery, between actors engaging in various ways in the development of the fish farming industry as we know it today. Focus is on the role of science, and on processes of knowledge conversion in triple-helix constellations. Many heterogeneous meeting places have emerged, facilitating the dissemination and re-interpretation both of scientific knowledge and experience, leading to knowledge formation relevant from multiple actor perspectives, and to the reformulation of issues in search of new knowledge.
